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Education and training in the life sciences in modern universities is mostly based upon a reductionistic, mechanistic, deterministic and causal-analytical approach to nature. From that viewpoint, life is an epiphenomenon of physio-chemical processes, not yet fully understood, just as consciousness is seen as being a metaphor for mechanistic brain process.
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Boersma, R., Beekman, W. (1999). Understanding Nature as Living: A Challenge for Academic Education. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Life Scientific Philosophy, Phenomenology of Life and the Sciences of Life. Analecta Husserliana, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2079-3_20
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